I've sat on "storm watch" in pumpers, tankers, and a brush truck ("grasshopper," "brush buggy," pickup truck). I preferred the tanker due to its weight, it just seemed less likely to blow over... One night with Springville (ON) Fire, we had rotating wall clouds pass by in front of us, behind us, and directly above us.

We got a little nervous.

One afternoon with Centralia (again, ON) Fire, we were way short-handed so I had to go play West truck by myself. I took the brush truck. I had the truck's AM radio on a good weather station, the truck's fire radio on the channel where the provincial Emergency mis-Management Agency was yakkin', a portable set to County Fire, and another portable set to Huron Fire for truck to station jibber-jabber. That little truck sounded like a freakin' dispatch center. Alburnett had a truck about 6 or 7 miles West of me with a tornado touchdown, moving EAST. All I could see in their direction was BLACK SKY. I had this wonderful vision of calling in to EMA while flying OVER Centralia in a little white pickup truck with pretty red and blue lights a-flashin'...

Had some doozers of thunderstorms come through the past few days here. Some with tornadoes, lots of hail and winds. I now have a 50 foot Maple tree which took out two of our grain bins......got to 90+ a few days ago. Now sitting at 80 with rumbling ever present...

the weather here has simply been stunning for a while now. We had one small humid spell in the middle of the week where I needed the AC for a bit but only short periods of time. I love these AC's with timers on them, I can set them to stay on for an hour and then it stays cool in here for hours. Right now it's 70°(f) with a dew point of 48° so it's really dry, a little cloudy today but that's okay, it has not been completely overcast.

I know the the triple H's are not far off though, so I'll enjoy it while I can

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